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I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.

Dick Cavett

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
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Comedy See Student
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, ‘Kid, don’t make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you’re like David Frost. Make it a conversation.’
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Advice Best Conversation Interview Myself Talk
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
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Day Device Myself Sick
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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College Learning Myself Realization
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Site Try Weapon Wish
I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.
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Funny Myself People
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.
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Oneself Performance Scene Show Tragedy
The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.
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Anxiety Bear Dreams Emotion True
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
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Art Profession Requirement Teaching Training
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.

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